Upcoming Beta Versions

The Groovy 1.5.2 stable release is the latest release. No milestone releases for the next version of Groovy have yet been released.

Maven Repositories

If you wish to embed Groovy in your application, you may just prefer to point to your favourite maven repositories or the codehaus maven repository. You should consult the individual pom files for the exact details but here is a summary of the main supported artifactIds and groupIds:

Groovy 1.5.0 and all post Groovy 1.0 releases (milestone releases)

Treats Antlr and ASM as standard dependencies. Only useful if you happen to also use the same versions of these jars yourself as it will save you having two copies of these jars. Optional dependencies are marked as optional. You may need to include some of the optional dependencies to use some features of Groovy, e.g. AntBuilder, GroovyMBeans, etc.

Includes jarjar versions of Antlr and ASM and Commons-CLI. Allows you or your other dependencies (e.g. hibernate) to use other versions of these jars. Optional dependencies are marked as optional. You may need to include some of the optional dependencies to use some features of Groovy, e.g. AntBuilder, GroovyMBeans, etc.

Includes jarjar versions of Antlr and ASM. Does not include Commons-CLI or any optional dependencies. Not suitable by itself if you want to use any tools which do command-line processing, e.g. groovyc, GroovyShell, ...

Previous stable release: Groovy 1.0

Treats Antlr and ASM as standard dependencies. Only useful if you happen to also use the same versions of these jars yourself as it will save you having two copies of these jars. Dependencies mandated for all optional parts of Groovy, e.g. AntBuilder, GroovyMBeans, etc.

Includes jarjar versions of Antlr and ASM. Allows you or your other dependencies (e.g. hibernate) to use other versions of these jars. Dependencies mandated for all optional parts of Groovy, e.g. AntBuilder, GroovyMBeans, etc.